By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JANIE HAR, Associated Press YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) 03/10 — Three women who devoted their lives to helping traumatized veterans were killed by a patient who had been kicked out of their Northern California treatment program,

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 03/06 — A military investigation into the Niger attack that killed four American service members concludes the team didn’t get required senior command approval for their risky mission to capture a high-level Islamic State militant,

MEXICO CITY (AP) 02/08 — Authorities in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz announced charges Thursday of “forced disappearance” against 19 current or former state police officials and officers,Read more »

By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) 01/30 — A Texas death row inmate is asking the federal courts to keep him from being executed for the 1999 slaying of his ex-girlfriend while he already was on parole for killing his estranged wife.

By TIM TALLEY, Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) 12/15 — A federal grand jury in Oklahoma has indicted a 63-year-old man accused of kidnapping his stepdaughter and holding her captive for 19 years in Mexico and elsewhere while fathering her nine children.

By FRANK ELTMAN, Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) 12/07 — The attempted kidnapping of a 16-year-old boy who authorities say was targeted for murder by the MS-13 street gang was foiled by police officers in a Long Island town that has been the epicenter of gang violence in recent years,Read more »

By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) 12/02 — A Mexican man who was deported from the United States twenty times was sentenced Friday in Oregon to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to sodomy,

MEXICO CITY (AP) 11/15 — Mexican police and military personnel on Tuesday arrested an “old school” Zetas cartel leader who allegedly coordinated a 2010 killing spree that included the massacre of 72 Central American migrants in the border state of Tamaulipas,Read more »

By RUSS BYNUM , Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) 08/26 — The man who police say killed a Charleston chef inside a restaurant filled with tourists had been convicted of violent crimes at least twice since the 1980s and struggled with mental illness,

JASON DEAREN and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press 05/23 – Investigators found white supremacist propaganda, bomb-making materials and a framed photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a Florida apartment where a teenager killed two roommates who had once shared his neo-Nazi beliefs before he converted to Islam,

JEFF AMY, Associated Press GLUCKSTADT, Miss. (AP) 05/19 — Three young Mississippi men were arrested hours after a 6-year-old boy was found shot dead Thursday in his mother’s stolen car and the suspects will be charged with capital murder,